Romantic Characteristics

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Romantic Characteristics

• Insists on the natural language of common speech
• Accesses emotion, usually via reconstructed memory

2
Romantic Characteristics

• Awareness of external nature wildness, solitude,
  grandeur
• Contains pastoral ideals

3
Romantic Characteristics

• Primitivism especially the noble savage and the
  child
• Individualism counter to using the specific to
  represent the universal

4
Romantic Characteristics

• Exoticism Both geographic and psychic
• Revived interest in the Middle Ages

5
Romantic Characteristics

• Tendency toward melancholy and dejection
• A sense of loss that is either personal or
  historical